Quotes and Sayings

The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the last half by our children.

Clarence Darrow

Imagination rules the world.

Napoleon I

The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.

Anita Brookne

Love the ones you can. Touch the ones you can reach. Let the others go.

Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, October 20, 2003

The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.

Sir John Lubbock

I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.

William Wordsworth, "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood", 1803

What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain.

Cicero

If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.

Lin Yutang

Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.

Heinrich Heine

I think that wherever your journey takes you, there are new gods waiting there, with divine patience - - And laughter.

Susan M. Watkins

Every day, in every way, I am getting better and better.

Emile Coue

If human life were long enough to find the ultimate theory, everything would have been solved by previous generations. Nothing would be left to be discovered.

Stephen Hawking, Interview with The Guardian (UK) September 27, 2005

Thou shouldst eat to live not live to eat.

Socrates

Irrational barriers and ancient prejudices fall quickly when the question of survival itself is at stake.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

I am part of the sea and stars And the winds of the South and North Of mountains and Moon and Mars, And the ages sent me forth.

Edward H. S. Terry

There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably good book.

Saul Bellow

There are no speed limits on the road to success.

David W. Johnson

The difference between a rich man and a poor man is this - - The former eats when he pleases, and the latter when he can get it.

Sir Walter Raleigh

Justice: To seek it, one must be willing to give up the right to privacy, as nothing more private will become more public.

Brian K. Blackden, 1996

By taking this action, I hope that I will have hastened the start of the healing.

Richard Milhous Nixon

If The Way is made clear, it is no longer The Way.

Chuang Tzu

America is a mistake, a giant mistake.

Sigmund Freud

Self - Development is a higher duty than self - Sacrifice.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

To get to heaven we must take it with us.

Henry Drummond

Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts.

John Owen

There is a homely old adage which runs Speak softly and carry a big stick you will go far. If the American nation will speak softly, and yet build and keep at a pitch of the highest training a thoroughly efficient navy, the Monroe Doctrine will go far.

Theodore Roosevelt

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, 1860

Only the little people pay taxes.

Leona Helmsly

Common - Sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking. It is made of the prejudices of childhood, the idiosyncrasies of individual character and the opinion of the newspapers.

W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will finally know peace.

Jimi Hendrix

Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.

Queen Victoria, in a letter to King Leopold of Belgium, April 4, 1848

My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky, In Observer 8 Oct. 1961

Are you so unobservant that you do not yet realize that sanity and hapiness are an impossible combination?

Mark Twain, The Mysterious Strange

I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.

Detronius Arbite

Question with boldness even the existence of a God because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind - Folded fear.

Thomas Jefferson

Happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.

Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel

Society is like the air; necessary to breathe, but insufficient to live on.

George Santayana